prurit
\pʁy.ʁit\
The verdict
“prurit” is uncommon French (frequency #67,023 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,023
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Démangeaison vive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prurit · prurit · French
prurit · rank #67,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,023
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH protein
Nearest frequency peer: protein (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « prurit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prosaïqueme…
prosaïquement
32,982 corpus weight
- proscrite
proscrite
32,981 corpus weight
- protein
protein
32,979 corpus weight
- prurit
prurit
32,978 corpus weight
- prédestinat…
prédestination
32,976 corpus weight
- prédisant
prédisant
32,975 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prurit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prurit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁy.ʁit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prurit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prurit is uncommon French at frequency #67,023 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁy.ʁit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for prurit in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prurit, spelled P-R-U-R-I-T.
Definition
- 1Démangeaison vive.
- 2Désir vif et impatient.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prurit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se gratte le front qu'un prurit tenace ne cesse de taquiner, et où fleurissent des taches rougeâtres.
Savant estimé, il avait attrapé une maladie de foie à manier les explosifs pendant la guerre et il était atteint de ce mal accablant : le prurit généralisé. Je lui avais passé une ordonnance à ce sujet de mon vieil ami le docteur Lamarre, de Saint-Germain, qui recommandait, à dose minime, le Rhus toxicodendron.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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